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Scenario 2-3 ABC Television Network Notified the Miss America Organization That It

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Scenario 2-3
ABC television network notified the Miss America Organization that it would not pick up the show for broadcast in 2005, leaving the pageant without a major broadcast outlet for the first time in 50 years. The news cannot have come as a shock to the Miss America Organization. A little more than a decade ago, the competition that started as an Atlantic City publicity stunt had grown to about 27 million viewers; in 2004, it drew a record-low 9.8 million, with the median age of the Miss America audience at 51. ABC paid $5.6 million for broadcast rights to the pageant in 2003. ABC, which took over the pageant after 30-year sponsor NBC bowed out, was not doing Miss America any favors airing it on Saturdays -- a low-viewership night. ("No More Miss America Pageantry for ABC," Washington Post.com, Lisa de Moraes,
October 21, 2004)
-(Scenario 2-3) One of the events new to the pageant this year is a sweepstakes in which the lucky viewer who predicts the winner will be awarded one million dollars at the end of the live broadcast. To oversee this new component of the event, the pageant should hire the following:

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